This illustrated guide, developed by the IASC Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Reference Group (MHPSS RG), aims at building basic psychosocial skills among all essential workers responding to COVID-19 in all sectors.

Mental Health Matters is a Starter Kit for civil society organisations, development sector professionals and policy makers that illustrates how mental health is integral to, cuts across and influences development outcomes of health, education, livelihoods, disaster response and justice.

Displaying how to use the Field Test Version of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Reference Group's Common Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).

A large ecosystem of external actors for mental disorders already exists presenting opportunities for unlocking additional resources, though coordination of efforts is crucial, and the use of a sustainable and ethical approach is a moral imperative. Further research is needed to understand all external actors and the allocation of their contributions in different settings.

The focus of this year’s World Mental Health Day, on 10 October, was suicide prevention. WHO used the opportunity of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September to launch, together with partners, a campaign asking people to prepare to take 40 seconds of action on World Mental Health Day and published a number of materials.

This Review aims to improve the understanding of implementation of mental health programmes in primary health care for common mental health disorders in low-income and middle-income countries. Objectives were to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation, and to adopt a pre-existing framework for understanding implementation determinants to synthesise available evidence and identify research gaps.

This article and accompanying policy brief identify “best practice” and “good practice” interventions that can feasibly be delivered in low- and middle-income countries, to aid the identification of resource efficiencies and allocation in LMICs.

Epilepsy: a public health imperative is the first global report on epilepsy summarizing the available evidence on the burden of epilepsy and the public health response required at global, regional and national levels.

What do we really mean when we say "global mental health"? What are the implicit assumptions in what geographic regions and mental health conditions get included and which do not? This systematic review of global mental health and its implicit priorities discusses these findings.